Not one line of code I wrote 20 years ago has the same economic value as East German currency.

All code is social ephemera. Ethno objects. It lacks intrinsic value of something like indoor plumbing.

It's electrical state in a machine. Our only real goal was convince people the symbols on the screen were coupled to some real world value while it is 100% decoupled from whatever real physical quantity we are tracking.

We all been Frank from Always Sunny; we make money, line go up. We don't define truth. The churn of physics does that.